Swell Gallery

For all of hurricane Michael’s cat 5 rage, fury and the imminent death and destruction it would cause the Panhandle and beyond as it spun by just offshore of Florida’s densely populated west coast there was a small window of...

Photos, story and captions by Tom Dugan: When Hurricane Florence started hitting the news, it was the first big “hurry up and wait” event of the 2018 Hurricane season as she meandered across the Atlantic Ocean and, eventually,...

Nobody needs to tell you what happened, it’s all been written about ad nauseum and propelled at the speed of the internet and Instagram. You watched the WSL’s QS rated (Womens 6,000 and Mens 1500 ) 2018 Florida Pro live and...

We’ve had about enough of this — another round of hurricane-fueled glory for parts of the East Coast interspersed with sweaty preparation, immense heartache, tragic loss of life, widespread destruction of property, and more sweaty...

Although it never got an official name, Potential Tropical Cyclone 10 and the low-pressure system it eventually morphed into delivered what many East Coast surfers called the best week in ages to close out August 2017. With epic conditions...

Good looking out, Gert! The strongest storm of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season so far, Hurricane Gert formed as a tropical wave last week and delivered its first shot of fun swell to Florida over the weekend. Taking a classic curve a...

Another month that’s supposed to be our slowest for surf, another month of surprisingly fun sneaker swells, perfect summer sliders, even a nor’easter and a tropical storm mixed in for good measure. Yes, this July 2017 Swell...

The month of June is usually one of the slowest on the East Coast — but not in 2017, when consistent swell graced every inch of our coastline, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean to Canada and beyond, from June 1st all the way to...